IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Emporia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Empor-1
  • User Pedon ID: V1984-VA081-234
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0234
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51160
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.5811577
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5365829
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mile south of the junction of Highways VA-628 and VA-625 and 35 yards west of Highway VA-628
  • Map Unit: 12B—Emporia loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA081—Greensville
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA081—Greensville County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36077-E5—Skippers, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Emporia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02341
    Bt1—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 46 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02342
    Bt2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 38 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02343
    Bt3—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 28 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 52 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02344
    2Bt4—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/8) and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) and light gray (5Y 7/2) sandy clay; 55 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 37 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02345
    2C—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); variegated red (2.5YR 4/8) and pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) and dark red (10R 3/6) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) sandy clay loam; 67 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 28 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # VPI02346